basaltic magma in a sentence
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- The andesites and dacites may have formed from basaltic magma by asthenospheric mantle, lithospheric components may have contributed however.
- During volcanic activity a fibrous material may be drawn by vigorous wind from molten basaltic magma called Pele's hair.
- Nakhlites are igneous rocks that are rich in augite and were formed from basaltic magma about 1.3 billion years ago.
- Many researchers have argued that anorthosites are the products of basaltic magma, and that mechanical removal of mafic minerals has occurred.
- As the oceanic Yangtze Craton subducted under the continental North China Craton, magmatic activities result in the formation of hydrated mafic basaltic magma.
- Possibly, the magma chamber of stage I had almost solidified when the injection of basaltic magma at depths of over triggered a remelting.
- The key factors in generating a Hawaiian eruption are basaltic magma and a low percentage of dissolved water ( less than one percent ).
- A typical theory is as follows : partial melting of the mantle generates a basaltic magma, which does not immediately ascend into the crust.
- Where hotspots occur under continental crust, basaltic magma is trapped in the less dense continental crust, which is heated and melts to form rhyolites.
- Volcanic activity was most likely triggered by the injection of basaltic magma into the felsic magma chamber days or weeks before the actual eruption.